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Warning – This blog is not an engineering deep dive on everything VVOLs. There will be many of those launched at VMware Partner Exchange 2015 with incredible info. This blog will be about the future of VMware Storage at Scale. First off congrats to VMware for the release of vSphere 6. In this release there…

VMworld 2014 Recap The Themes VMware is trying to transcend the hypervisor with a Software Defined Data Center – Not news but repackaging and renaming it a modernization of the marketing approach sometimes needed to move forward (See announcements on vRealize). New products/services were announced but not as prominently as previous VMworlds. VMware is transcending…

Cut to the chase; today 7/16/2014 I join SolidFire! I’m doing this to: Further build out some of their most strategic technology partnerships including VMware, Citrix Systems and others Work with an elite team of solution architects focusing on areas like virtual infrastructure and virtual desktops, orchestration, automation and database systems Work with the SolidFire…

AppRemoting has been almost an exclusive Citrix functionality. As a former MACBook user I prayed for thsi kind of functionality. VMware has unlocked this function within Horizon 6 to combine with Workspace to deliver a end user consumption portal and usage model. This is really profoundly useful when you want to consume in a lot…

I’m honored to be named to this group for my 3rd year (announcement here). I’ve seen value in the program because of the people, passion, and resources of this community. As IT has changed from the mass adoption of virtualization to the cloud era we are all contending with ways to triangulate what really…

VMware has been in the works for a software SAN also known as VSAN. The technology functions with up to 8 nodes in the current beta and will support 32 once GA. Also vmware purchased Virtso which is an incredible storage software solution that virtualizes storage and re-orders the write patterns to sequential. Take a…

My wife hates my Logitech Harmony remotes. I love it. It’s hard to get everyone to unify on a concept but last I checked the Harmony remote concept is ruling the universal remote markets She, like a lot of people, doesn’t have any tolerance for flaws in the HD TV system. If it doesn’t work flawless,…